hoped that his Government would send him a copy. I offered no comment except a remark that it ought to be not difficult to dispose of the question of jurisdictional privilege. The Minister said that our Minister to Siam, Mr. Baker, had at one time expressed the view that he would like to return to Bangkok for treaty negotiations and that Mr. Baker had at another time expressed doubt whether the state of his health would permit him to return to Bangkok. The Minister said that perhaps Mr. Baker would still "change his mind”. The Minister inquired whether Mr. Sayre was available, as he would like to call on him; and it was shortly arranged that the Minister call on Mr. Sayre at once. COMMENT: It will probably be deemed desirable to make acknowledgement 20 at an early date of the Siamese Minister's note of November 5, 1936 (here attached). S[TANLEY] K. H[ORNBECK] 711.922/84 The Siamese Minister (Rajamaitri) to the Secretary of State 21 WASHINGTON, 5 November, 1936. SIR: With reference to a note from the Siamese Councillor of State for Foreign Affairs of the 19th October, addressed to your representative in Bangkok, indicating that it is the desire of His Majesty's Government to secure in their treaties a large measure of uniformity, complete equality of form and entire fiscal and jurisdictional autonomy, I now have the honour to inform Your Excellency, under instructions from my Government, that His Majesty's Government hereby give notice for their part of the termination of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation with its Annex between Siam and the United States of America signed at Washington, 16th December, 1920. It is very earnestly desired, in view of the fact that the Penal Code, the Civil and Commercial Codes, the Codes of Procedure and the Law for the Organization of Courts have been promulgated and have been in force for a certain period of time, to terminate the theoretical and unused right of evocation and to enjoy unrestricted jurisdictional autonomy. His Majesty's Government would therefore request friendly assent of your Excellency's Government to the discontinuation of a jurisdictional privilege which has outlived its time. 20 Acknowledgment was made November 17; for text, see Department of State, Treaty Information, Bulletin No. 86, November 1936, p. 19. "Original missing from Department files; reprinted from Department of State, Treaty Information, Bulletin No. 86, November 1936, p. 18. It is however understood that, as provided in Article 17 of the Treaty, all the above-mentioned agreements shall remain in force for one year from the date of the receipt of this notice. I have [etc.] PHYA ABHIBAL RAJAMAITRI 711.922/83: Telegram The Chargé in Siam (Chapman) to the Secretary of State BANGKOK, November 6, 1936-9 a. m. [Received November 6-4:28 a. m.] 16. Foreign Office last night presented draft of treaty to take the place of existing treaty which I am informed was denounced yesterday in Washington. Note of transmittal states "That for practical reasons it would be most acceptable if the negotiations might take place at Bangkok if possible at an early convenient date on the basis of the draft proposed". Text of draft of treaty will be forwarded air mail 7th.22 Most important provisions of the treaty from American standpoint are the inclusion of land ownership right subject to reciprocity governed by "laws of the place where the property is situated" and omission of monopoly restrictions. All treaties with other countries have been simultaneously denounced. CHAPMAN "Missing from Department files. INDEX Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), China-Continued 816, 869 Aizawa, Colonel, trial of, 742–747, 766- Alaska. See Japan: Fisheries. Arms and munitions. See under China. Aviation. See under China; Sino- Baldwin Locomotive Works, 594-595 Borneo, 130 Boycotts against Germany, 59 Boxer Indemnity, 40, 150 Burma, 234 Canada, 428, 946-950 Celebes, 130-134 Censorship and confiscation of Ameri- can motion pictures in China, Chiang Kai-shek. See under China; China (see also Sino-Japanese dispute), Arms and munitions (including mili- effecting uniform export prac- Shanghai, International Settle- Statistics of purchases, Chinese U. S.-British discussions of, 554- American and other foreign in- Chinese disinclination to permit establishment of civil aviation Aviation-Continued National Aviation Corp., 202, 361, Burma, relations with, 234 South China opposition to, 14, 122, Claims against China, 574-600 Railway loan, infra): Prefer- Japanese claims, 578, 580-581, 596, Sino-American claims commission, Collective security, Chinese views on, Communists and bandits. See under Consortium agreement of 1920, 469– 1003 |